Poser and DAZ support

I hate being that guy, but I used to spend a fairly large amount of time lurking on the big posts about Genesis and Poser, and general interoperability between the two companies. But with all the forum changes I think the posts were lost, so, as much as I hate being that guy.. I'm going to be.

What's the story with Genesis in Poser? I know it was a long way off (if ever) and there are a couple slightly clunky ways to import from DAZ Studio, but I've been out of the game for a month or two.

Please tell me that the Poser and DAZ coders are currently locked in a cubicle with a lot of alcohol and are cranking out a working Poser Gensis! http://xkcd.com/323/

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there was a very recent post in the old forum that said that Smith Micro was not pursuing "full" genesis compatibility at this time for a variety of reasons. Daz said they are not making V5/M5 for poser. will see if i can find link

You might end up liking it. There have been many people that didn't really want to switch over from poser to daz for anything but were compelled to try genesis. A few of them ended decided to add daz studio to the arsenal along with poser so they could leverage what they ended up liking in daz, but not necessarily replacing poser.

You might end up in the same boat. I wish there was documentation, but the forums taught me a lot so i would take advantage of that. Good luck

I hated DAZ Studio in it's early versions... The latest version, however, I love. The layout was always pretty good. It was slick and customizeable. But I had problems with figures. It's mostly Genesis that has me in D|S, but I have to say I do enjoy the software. I wish it had better animation tools incorporated, but one can't have everything.

You might end up liking it. There have been many people that didn't really want to switch over from poser to daz for anything but were compelled to try genesis. A few of them ended decided to add daz studio to the arsenal along with poser so they could leverage what they ended up liking in daz, but not necessarily replacing poser.

You might end up in the same boat. I wish there was documentation, but the forums taught me a lot so i would take advantage of that. Good luck

yep, that is me. Long time poser user. started using DS3 to use reality/Luxrender and now i use DS4 pro most of the time. Works great with poser content and i am able to import all my old poser saved scenes. No reason you can't use both. I like the library palette much better than the one in poser 2012, faster and easy to find things. genesis, has some great features and is a big time saver, even using V4 content. If i ever get some great heels that are made for genesis, I will probably stop using V4 altogether since i have all my V4 characters transferred over to genesis now.

I know there is a fix for the hands and feet, unfortunately i don't know where it is now with the new site... Maybe someone else will be so kind as to offer a link :)
Genesis has some extra bones compared to gen4 figures though, so there might still be some tweeking envolved after...

Meh - I've given up hoping that Genesis will ever work in Poser. I'll just have to make do with the characters and clothes that I have now and only buy the architecture/vehicle/landscape stuff. DAZ does get a lot less of my money than they used to, but that's the way it goes. I tried Studio and hated it, so that's that. I'm just very sad at how this all turned out.

If they do a new figure for Poser users then the complaint would still be there cause not enough PA's are doing content. They won't be able to use the regular genesis content because of the current issues with Genesis in Poser.

I converted from Poser to DAZ 4 and, frankly, I've never looked back. I find DAZ far easier to use. While the rendering between Poser and DAZ can be questioned as to which is better, there is no comparison when using DAZ, Reality 2.0, and Luxrender. I haven't bothered to see if there's a bridge from Poser to Lux. No need to do so, especially with the improvements Genesis brought.

If they do a new figure for Poser users then the complaint would still be there cause not enough PA's are doing content. They won't be able to use the regular genesis content because of the current issues with Genesis in Poser.

MMMM No.

There is plenty being made for Victoria 4. If there were a Victoria 5 for poser, the PA's would create for it. I'd go so far as to say that it would be DS4 that was lacking content in that case. Except that anything made for poser is allegedly useable in DS.